Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León

Facultad de Filosofía y Letras

LITERATURA DEL ROMANTICISMO

Producto Integrador de Aprendizaje
Preguntas

Nombre: Adriana Lizeth Morales Nuño.

Matricula: 1743978.
Maestra: Alhelí Morín Lam.
Grupo: i71

A 10 de Junio del 2020.

 Equipo 4

Presentaciones en las que participé:

 A Mild Attack of Locusts.

 Mammie’s Form at the Post Office.
 Illusion and Disillusion/Pygmalion Trailers.
 The Duke’s Children.
 Be Ye Men of Valor.
 To an Athlete Dying/When I Was One-and-Twenty.
 For the Sake of a Single Poem, from The Notebook of Malte Laurids Brigge.
 From The Introduction to Frankenstein

A Shocking Accident by Graham Greene

1. Who informed Jerome about his father´s death?

A= The housemaster

2. When Jerome was a child, what did he believe that his father was a member of?
A= The British Secret Service

3. How did Jerome´s father die?

A= He was killed by a pig
4. What did Jerome´s aunt say that she would give to Sally and Jerome for their wedding?
A= A set of Jerome´s father´s books

5. Where did Jerome´s father die?

A= Naples, Italy

6. Which was Jerome’s aunt´s favorite book?

A= Nooks and Crannies

7. Describe Jerome´s aunt.

A= She had no sense of humor

8. Why Jerome was worried about telling Sally about his father´s death?
A= Because maybe she will react like the others

9. Why does Jerome felt hurt with his aunt?

A= Because she told at the strangers about his father´s death

10. Where did Jerome´s aunt put his father´s photo?

A= On a piano

Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell

1. What country is “Shooting an Elephant” set in?

A= India

2. Who wrote “Shooting an Elephant”?

A= George Orwell

3. Who colonized Bruma at the time of the essay?

A= The British
4. What is the modern name of Bruma?

A= Myanmar

5. What does Orwell bring with him when he sets off to see the elephant?

A= .44 Winchester Rifle

6. What does Orwell see when he arrives on the scene where the elephant has been
rampaging?

A= A dead Man face down in the mud

7. How do the older police officers feel about the killing of the elephant?

A= They think that Orwell did the right thing to do

8. How do the young police officers feel about the killing of the elephant?

A= They think it was wrong to kill an elephant for killing a Coolie

9. What, more specifically, is the reason that Orwell is driven to kill the elephant?

A= Because he doesn´t want to be humiliated in front of the Burmese crowd

10. What best describes Orwell´s feelings about his role as a police officer in “Shooting an
Elephant”?

A= Guilty

Empty Seat by Yuan Qiongqiong

1. How do the man and the other people react when the woman’s crying become louder?

A= They would have to deaf not to hear it

2. What do these reactions suggest about their attitude toward the woman?

A= That they don’t want to hear her anymore

3. What does the man think the woman’s sobbing sounds like?

A= That it sounds like an imperfection in a machine wheel

4. What does the man gather about the woman from the look she sneaks?
 A= He asked to himself what in the world could cause such unhappiness

5. What does he instinctively do after sneaking this look? Why?

A= He instinctively leaned away from the woman because he didn’t want people to think he had
anything to do with her

6. When the man concludes about the college boy “No doubt what he has thinking”.
What do you think the man means by this?

A= That the college boy thinks she is actually crying because of the man

7. What happened to the seat at the end?

A= The bus pulled up to a stop and the man and the college boy watched one of the new
passengers take the seat

8. Why did the college boy smile to the man?

A= Because the college boy had vacated the seat before he got on

9. What did the person sit in the front do?

A= Turned to look, then quickly faced front again without showing any emotion. He crinkled
his brow to show how disgusted he was

10. What did the man finally do?

A= With a show of insouciance, he got up and mingled with the passengers in the aisle,
stopping in the front of the college boy

A Mild Attack of Locusts by Doris Lessing

1. What are locusts?

A= The locusts are insects. They live mainly in Asia and Africa; they fly in very large groups. Also,
eat and destroy crops

2. What was the desire of every farmer?

A= Every farmer desired the locusts to overlook his farm and go on to the next

3. Why did the farmers throw wet leaves on fire?

A= The farmers threw wet leaves into the fires to make the smoke acrid and black

4. How did old Stephen treat the stray locusts?

A= He picked stray locusts off his shirt and split it down. It was full of eggs

5. How did the farmer try to prevent the main swarm of locusts from landing on their
farms?

A= By beating drums and raising smoke from fires

6. Why are the locusts compared with bad weather?

A= Margaret thought that the locusts would be like a bad weather. Like a bad weather could appear
at any moment

7. Are the hoppers different from the locusts?

A= The hoppers are the young locusts. While the locusts are full grown insects

8. How did the advancing locusts look?

A= The locusts looked like a low long cloud advancing. It was still rust colored. It was swelling
forward and outward

9. What was the condition of trees?

A= The trees looked like queer and still. They were clotted with insects. Their boughs bent down to
the ground due to weight of insects

10. Why did the men eat their supper with good appetites?

A= They had fought with locusts the whole day. They were tired and hungry. So, they ate their
supper with relish

The Train from Rhodesia by Nadine Gordimer

1. What did the wife see when they stopped at the station?

A= A lion

2. What did the train stop at the station for?

A= To deliver some bread

3. What was the little girl throwing?

A= Pieces of chocolates nobody wanted except the dogs

4. What happened outside?

A= The bell rang for the train to pull of

5. Why did the old man get an attitude?

A= No one wanted to buy the lion

6. Why was the husband about to beat up the old man?

A= He kept pressuring his wife to buy the lion

7. Was the lion real or fake?

A= It was a carving

8. What did the old man do for the wife?

A= He ran to the train and gave the wife the lion

9. Why did the woman like the lion so much?

A= Because it was so beautiful

10. Did the artist want to sell the lion?

A= Yes, but he was meddling the young wife to but it

Dead Men´s Path by Chinua Achebe.

1. Where is Achebe from?

A= Nigeria

2. Why did he leave Africa?

A= He had become part of the government of Biafra in its successful civil war with Nigeria, and he went into exile

3. What is the recurrent theme in Achebe´s fiction?

A= The worth and dignity of the African culture

4. How was Michael Obi different from other teachers at the school?

A= He was better educated and versed in “modern”, “progressive” ways

5. How do both Michael and Nancy Obi try to set the school apart?
A= Nancy plants beautiful flowers which clearly the school compound from the “rank neighborhood bushes”. Michael
tries to eradicate nature superstitions, making the school an oasis of progressivism

6. Why don´t their efforts succeed?

A= They fail to appreciate the importance of local beliefs and traditions. The villager´s recourse is to trample the
garden. Neither has understood that the school must be integrated with the village, not isolated from it. The conflict
involves Obi´s refusal to open the ancestral pathway which connects to the conflict between modernity and traditional
cultures

7. Why is the path so important to the priest and the village?

A= The priest tells him the path must be open because not only do the villager´s ancestors travel on the path, but that it
is also the path by which the spirits of those about to be born travel to the village

8. What does Obi see one night as he is admiring?

A= Obi see an old woman from the village hobble right across the compound, through a marigold flower-bed and
hedges. Ongoing up there he found faint signs of an almost discussed path from the village across the school compound
to the bush on the other side

9. How does the headmaster prevent the villagers’ from using the path?

A= The headmaster prevents the villagers’ from using the path by blocking the entrance and exit walkways with heavy
sticks. The blocked path is also strengthened with barbed wire in these two places

10. What are Michael Obi’s two foremost goals?

A= First, bring good education level in Ndume central school. The second, was that, to connect the school’s compound
into a beautiful place

B. Wordsworth by V. S. Naipaul

1. What is the street name where three beggars called punctually every day at the hospitable houses?

A= Miguel Street

2. What did B. Wordsworth look like?

A= He was a small man and he was tidily dressed. He wore a hat, a white shirt, and a black trousers

3. What is B. Wordsworth brother’s name?

A= White Wordsworth

4. What does B. Wordsworth do?

A= He is a poet

5. What did the narrator and B. Wordsworth do inside the yard?

A= They watched the bees for about an hour squatting near the palm trees

6. What did B. Wordsworth pull out from his hip-pocket?

A= It was a printed sheet and in this paper he had a greatest poem about mothers

7. Where did B. Wordsworth live?

A= He lived in Alberto Street in a one-roomed hut placed right in the center of the lot. The yard seemed all
green. There was a big mango tree, there was a coconut tree and there was a plum tree. The placed looked
wild

8. What did the narrator do when his mother beat him badly?

A= He ran out of the house swearing that he would never come back. He went to B. Wordsworth’s house, he
was so angry and his nose was bleeding

9. What is the name of the star that the narrator particularly remembered?

A= The constellation of Orion the Hunter

10. What was the story about that B. Wordsworth told the narrator?

A= It was a lovely story of a boy and a girl that get married and both were poets. The girl loved the grass,
and flowers and trees. One day the girl poet told the boy poet they were going to have a baby but this baby
was never born, because the girl die and the young poet die with her, inside her. And the girl’s husband was
very sad

Mammie’s Form at the Post Office by E.A. Markham

1. What did Mammie say to the boy behind the counter?

A= She told the boy that she wanted to send some money to the West Indies

2. How much money did Mammie want to send?

A= $100

3. Why did Mammie want to send the money?

A= She was sending the money to repair her uncle’s headstone and to weed the family plot

4. What has Mammie wondered about the boy?

A= She wondered why they didn’t have anyone bigger who could deal with the customers and
understand what they want, he was just a child

5. Why would the whole world soon know her business?

A= The boy was filling another form, checking his book and showing it to the man working next to
him

6. Why would Mammie have to pay £55.20?

A= She had to pay £45.50 for the $100 and three pounds’ charge for sending it urgently

7. How much did it cost to Mammie sending the money to Murial last year?

A= £24

8. How would it be cheaper to send?

A= By a telegraph letter

9. Why was she too busy to go to another post office?

A= She had to go home to put on the dinner

10. What mistake did Mammie have in the post office?

A= She had just said “dollars” to the young lad, she didn’t specify West Indian dollars, which
would be less than 25 pounds in the new money. This year she was prepared to allow for another £4
for inflation and for telegraphing it

“Games at Twilight” by Anita Desai

1. What were the children playing?

A= Hide and seek

2. What does Ravi think it would feel to be to be the winner?

A= Ravi thought it would be thrilling to win and the feeling motivated him to stay in hiding

3. Who is Ravi in the story?

A= Ravi is one of the younger children in the family

4. What kind of game were the children playing when the twilight came?
A= They were playing the funeral game

5. Who is Raghu in the story?

A= He is older than the rest of the kids

6. What insect tickled Ravi’s neck?

A= It was an insect, perhaps a spider exploring him

7. Why did Ravi feel very exposed?

A= Because he was sitting on an upturned flowerpot behind the garage

8. Where did the story take place?

A= India

9. What kind of game are they playing and how does this affect Ravi?

A= They were singing and clapping. This affected Ravi because he had been forgotten and none of
them cared about him

10. What was the shed like?

A= “The shed smelt of rats, ant-hills, dust and spider webs”

Telephone Conversation by Whole Soyinka

1. Whom does the telephone conversation open with?

A= African speaker

2. Telephone conversation is a conversation between?

A= An African black man and a white lady

3. What food does the speaker compare to?

A chocolate

Two Sheep by Janet Frame

4. How does the sheep were transported?

A= They were driven with the rest of the flock along a hot dusty valley road

5. What does the first sheep think it will be its destination after been sold?
A= The slaughter house at the freezing works

6. Did the second sheep know it destination?

A= The second sheep did not know of their fate

Follower by Seamus Heaney

7. What is about?

A= The poem focuses on the relationship between father and son, shifting in perspective from past to
present, giving the reader an insight into a son’s reaction to the passing of time and that same father grown
old

8. What happened in the final stanza?

A= The reader thrown forwards into the present only to discover that the speaker is now in control, is the
one moving forward, and behind him is the father rather reduced in his role, perhaps too old to walk properly
clinging on

Wind by Ted Hughes

9. What is a Slant Rhyme?

A= Is an approximate rhyme based on (assonance), the repetition of a vowel sound, or on (consonance), the
repetition of a consonant sound at the end of a vowel

10. What is an example of slant rhyme in the poem?

A= “In follower”, for example, the repetition of the –ck consonant ending in the words sock and pluck forms
a slant rhyme

“That’s All” by Harold Pinter

1. When did Harold Pinter wrote the comedy sketch “That’s All”

A= In 1964, as a radio script for the British Broadcasting Corporation

2. Where is Pinter from?

A= London’s East End

3. Why did Mrs. A put the kettle on?

A= She invited the unnamed woman after she’d been to the butcher’s

4. What day Mrs. A go to the butcher?

A= On Friday

5. What did the unnamed woman want?

A= Meat for the weekend

6. What new day did the woman return?

A= On Thursday

7. Why does Pinter’s characters are often unable to communicate clearly?

A= Because they themselves do not understand what they feel or why they act as they do

8. When had the unnamed woman previously visited Mrs. A?

A= On Wednesday

9. What is the place mentioned?

A= A butcher

10. Does the unnamed woman still come?

A= She comes in, just doesn’t come in so much

Pygmalion Trailers by George Shaw

1. What is the setting of the story?

A= The story takes place in London, England in the twentieth century

2. From whom does Eliza say he learns self-respect?

A= Colonel Pickering

3. When Freddy catches Eliza running out of Higgins’ house, what is she actually on her way
to do?

A= To jump into the river

4. Who claims that Eliza must be a Hungarian princess?

A= Nepommuck
5. Why does the crowd hiding from the rain get so upset with Higgins for taking notes of the
Flower Girl’s speech?

A= They think that he is a busybody plainclothes policeman who won’t leave an innocent girl alone

6. When the flower girl gets in the taxi at Covent Garden after the thunderstorm, where
does she initially tell the taxicab to take her?

A= Buckham Pellis (Buckingham Palace)

7. After she threatens to leave because is so unfeeling, what does Henry give Eliza to
convince her to stay?

A= Half a chocolate cream

8. How much money does Alfred Doolittle want for his daughter from Higgins?

A= Five pounds

9. What does Eliza demand from Higgins?

A= Speech lessons

10. The last act shows the characters getting ready for whose weeding?

A= Alfred Doolittle and his woman’s

The Lagoon by Joseph Conrad

1. What type of reading “The Lagoon” is?

A= A short story

2. Who was Tuan going to visit?

A= A long-lost friend named Arsat

3. How did Arsat’s brother die?

A= The pursuers killed him

4. What did they stop while they were fleeting?

A= They were exhausted so they stopped on a bit of land jutting out into the water to rest

5. What does Arsat’s brother instruct them?

A= To take the fisherman’s boat and stay back and wait for him while he dealt with the pursuers

6. What did Tuan find out when he meets Arsat?

A= That his wife Diamelen is dying

7. What happened at the end?

A= Arsat has nothing because he lost his brother and wife, the sun rises and Diamelen dies. So, he
plans to return to his home village to avenge his brother’s death

8. What story Arsat tell to Tuan?

A= That he and his brother kidnapped Diamelen

9. What does Arsat’s brother tell to Diamelen and Arsat?

A= He tell them to flee to the other side because they spotted a large boat of the Rajah’s men
coming to find them

10. What was Diamelen before?

A= A servant of the Rajah’s wife

The Rocking-Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence

1. The story begins by introducing which character?

A= Paul’s mother

2. What was Paul’s mother unable to feel for her children?

A= Love

3. How did Paul’s family feel about themselves in comparison to their neighbors?

A= Superiors

4. What did the children hear whispered in the house?

A= That there must be more money

5. What made deep lines appear on Paul’s mother’s face?

A= Failure

6. What does Paul ask his mother about which prompts their discussion on luck?

A= Why they do not have their own car

7. What reason does Paul’s mother give him for why they are poor?

A= Paul’s father has no luck

8. According to Paul’s mother, no one knows why people are lucky or not, except for who?

A= GOD

9. What frightens Paul’s sisters?

A= His riding the rocking-horse

10. How does Paul’s mother speak to Paul when they speak of lucky?

A= Bitterly

Araby by James Joyce

1. Name of the street?

A= North Richmond Street

2. What does he recall?

A= How they would run through the back lanes of the houses and hide in the shadows when they
reached the street

3. Where does he wait to see Mangan’s sister leave her house?

A= In the front room of his house

4. What does he think about?

A= The priest who died in the house before his family moved and the games that he and his friends
played in the street
5. Why is the narrator’s infatuation so intense?

A= Because he fears he will never gather the encourage to speak with the girl and express his
feelings

6. Who does he avoid?

A= The boy’s uncle or the sister of his friend Mangan

7. What is the name that his uncle mention?

A= “The Arab’s Farewell to his steed”

8. Why he couldn’t focus in school?

A= He finds the lessons tedious, and they distract him from thinking about Mangan’s sister

9. Did he buy something for Mangan’s sister?

A= No because he arrives at the bazaar just before 10 p.m. when it is starting to close down

10. At what place does Mangan’s sister ask him if he plans to go?

A= To “Araby” a Dublin bazaar

The Duke’s Children by Frank O’Connor

1. Why did the boy never invite Nancy to go out with him?

A= Because even though he tried to impress her saying that he could speak different languages he never
invited her to go out because he was ashamed of his origins and maybe he thought he wouldn't be enough for
her.

2. Why did the messenger boy lie to Nancy's father?

A= He lied to Nancy's father because he wanted to show a good impression saying that he was working in
the office of the railway.

3. How does the narrator describe Mr. Harding?

A= He describes him as a small man with a face like a clenched fist, neatly dressed and always carrying his
newspaper

4. At the beginning of the story, how did the narrator describe the Father he would see at the gate?

A= He wore his house clothes, a ragged trousers and vest, an old cap that come down over his eyes, and
boots cut into something that resembled sandals, but he calls his "slippers".
5. Who is the author of the reading "The duke´s children"? Describe

A= Frank O’Connor, and he born in Ireland.

6. What was the narrator most disliked about the poor family?

A= Their utter commonness, low Friends and fatuous conversations.

7. How did he describe his house?

A= That his house was in a tiny terrace, with its twelve-foot square of garden in front, its crumbling stumps
of gateposts and low wall that had lost its railing.

8. How does the story end?

A= Larry realizes that they are both Duke’s children.

9. What did the narrator’s interior voice say that preceded and dictated each movement as though it
were a fragment of a storybook?

A= He raised his cap gracefully while his face broke into a thoughtful smile.

10. How does the story end?

A= Larry realizes that they are both Duke’s children.

Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

1. When was Woolf’s lecture originally delivered?

A= October 1928

2. What does the narrator propose women writers should receive?

A= 500 pounds a year and private rooms

3. What is curious about the Manx cat the narrator sees?

A= It is missing its tail

4. Why does the narrator believe the writing of women such as charlotte Brontë often
suffers?

A= They write out of anger or insecurity

5. Why does the narrator believe the writing of men often suffers?
A= They write out of aggression

6. What is the name the narrator gives to William Shakespeare’s imaginary sister?

A= Judith

7. How does Judith die?

A= Suicide

8. Why is the food at the women's college inferior to that at the men's college?

A= The college has less money

9. What encouragement does Woolf offer her audience?

A= Encourages women to seek their intellectual and material freedom

10. What is the main idea of the reading?

A= A room of one’s own takes on the simple meaning of a little independence away from the male
dominated system. This allow for “a room of one’s own

A Cup of Tea by Katherine Mansfield

1. What year was the setting in?

A= In the early 1900’s

2. What is the climax?

A= When her husband said Miss Smith is pretty

3. Who is Rosemary?

A= Rosemary Fell is a wealthy debutante. She is engaged to Philip Alsop, the owner of a shipping
business. Rosemary is, in general, a kind-hearted woman with good intentions. Rosemary loves to
shop, hold luncheons, and spend time with her friends. She is looking forward to being married.

4. What is the theme of a cup of tea by Katherine Mansfield?

A= "A Cup of Tea", a short story by Katherine Mansfield, uses a foil to convey the theme of
jealousy and insecurities that highlight the weaknesses of Rosemary Fell and how she struggles to
make herself surpass the power of wealth she has over the lower class society.
5. How much money does Rosemary give Miss Smith?

A= Three pounds’ notes

6. What was the last question Rosemary asking her husband?

A= Am I pretty?

7. What is the name of her husband?

A= Philip

8. Is Rosemary a good kind-hearted or a superficial one?

A= She wants people to see her as kind-hearted but, she cannot pull it over on anyone

9. What kind of person is Rosemary?

A= She is a wealthy educated and socialite type of women

10. Why does Rosemary enjoy shopping at the antique store? What does she consider buying
there?

A= Rosemary enjoys shopping at the antique store because she likes things that are curious that
many people don’t have. She considers buying a little curious box.

Village People by Bessie Head

1. What are the themes in the story?

A= Poverty and conflicts, fear and anxiety for the poverty

2. What is the setting of the story?

A= It was written in the mid-1960s in Serowe, Botswana.

3. Why ‘hope’ is one of the themes in this story?

A= Because the village people can be admired for their humanity despite the challenges they face.

4. Who is the old woman in the reading?

A= In story it is a woman who seems to be sick, hungry, her body is weak etc.

5. What is the main idea of reading "the old woman"?

A= It is about the kindness of the people and how we can help whoever needs it.
6. What is the old woman so desperate about?

A=The old woman is desperate for food with her only goal being the will to want to survive by
getting food.

7. What is the reason that babies used to die?

A= Babies die most easily of starvation and malnutrition.

8. What did the old lady ask for when she fell on her knees?

A= She asked for water

9. What is the most common way of communication?

A= The ox cart and sledge

10. What did they eat every day in the morning?

A= A porridge of millet.

Be Ye Men of Valor by Winston Churchill

1. When was the speech given?

A= On May 19, 1940

2. When did Churchill die?

A= January 24, 1965

3. Why is this work relevant?

A= It was Winston Churchill's first speech as prime minister

4. What emotions does he convey with this use of descriptive language?

A= He uses the language with an emotion of motivation and hope for not to be intimidated by the
French army

5. What munitions are urgently needed?

A= They must have, and have quickly, more airplanes, more tanks, more shells, more guns.

6. What was the purpose of this speech?

A= He wanted to inspire the UK nation to withstand the relentless German assault

7. Names the countries mentioned in this speech.

A= Germany, France, and Great Britain

8. Who were the Allies of World War II?

A= The United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, and the USSR.

9. What was the main goal?

A= To win the battle and war

10. Who did write “Be Ye Men of Valor”?

A=Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill and he die in 1965.

The Demon Lover by Elizabeth Bowen

1. Who is the author of "The Demon Lover"?

A= Elizabeth Bowen.

2. What is the setting of "The Demon Lover"?

A= August 1994 in London.

3. Who is “K,” the author of the mysterious letter?

A= The letter really came from Kathleen's deceased lover.

4. In Elizabeth Bowen's short story "Demon Lover," why is Mrs. Drover somewhat
reluctant to return to her house in London?

A= She is particularly hesitant to see the damage of the house caused by prior air raids during the
World War II.

5. How does Mrs. Drover control her fear?

A= She focuses on practical activities.

6. Which word(s) create the atmosphere of "The Demon Lover"?

A= Unwilling, dead, warped and boarded-up.

7. What information in the flashback is most important for the story's ending?

A= Mrs. Drover was engaged to a soldier who went missing in World War II.

8. What was the only ventilation in the house?

A= The only ventilation being the chimney, the whole drawing room smelled of the cold heart.

9. What does Mrs. Drover reflect about her family?

A= Mrs. Drover reflects on how dirty and damp her family home has become.

10. What does Mrs. Drover do after making the decision of leaving the house?

A= She unlocked the door before anything happens and ventured to the top of the staircase.

My Last Duchess by Robert Browning

1. What type is My Last Duchess?

A= A dramatic monologue.

2. What makes a dramatic monologue to the speaker?

A= Unreliable because the speaker’s is giving their side of the story.

3. What is the main theme of the poem?

A= Gender inequality in society.

4. Who painted the picture?

A= Fra Pandolf.

5. What does she have upon her cheek?

A= A spot of joy.

Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning

6. When is Porphyria’s Lover set?

A= Just after her death

7. How is Porphyria killed?

A= She is strangled

8. In Porphyria’s Lover, why does the narrator commit his crime?

A= To preserve Porphyria’s love

9. What part of Porphyria’s body is the narrator seemingly obsessed with?

A= Her hair.

10. What does the narrator seem to be afraid to look at after he kills Porphyria?

A= Her eyes.

The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy

1. What does the thrush symbolize in the Darkling Thrush?

A= The thrush, which draws on the motif of the singing bird in Romantic literature, represents hope. Like
Hardy himself, the thrush uses his voice to create beauty.

2. What is the setting of the Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy?

A= Is set in the winter months during the turn of the 20th century in England.

3. What is the theme in The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy?

A= Include the search for meaning, chaos and order, and nature.

The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy

4. What is the main theme in this poem?

A= It is about the war.

5. What is the conflict of the war?

A= The speaker of the poem relates how he killed a man in the war.

6. When was it published?

A= In 1902.

7. What type of person is the speaker in this poem?

A= Poor and not literate.

“Ah, are you Digging on My Grave?” by Thomas Hardy

8. To whom do the voices belong?

A= The dead woman and her little dog.

9. Who is digging on the grave?

A= A dog

10. What in the first speaker’s remark about “A dog’s fidelity” engenders irony?

A= That a dog will always stand by you no matter, what and then by the end the little dog was just there to
bury a bone.

To an Athlete Dying Young by A. E. Housman

1. When did AE Housman write to an athlete dying young?

A= Was published in his first collection, A Shropshire Lad, in 1896 and is generally considered one of his
best poems.

2. What is the message into an athlete dying young?

A= Is a famous poem on account of its themes of the bitterness of the death at the height of glory. The poem
deals with the early death of an athlete who once won a race and earned respect from his townsmen.

3. What is the tone of “To an Athlete Dying Young”?

A= Is Housman's characteristic combination of nostalgia, melancholy, and bitterness. The self-reflective

quality of the verse is accentuated by the poet addressing one who cannot reply or even hear him.

4. What does the first stanza mean?

A= It talks about an athlete who was celebrated when they won.

5. In the final stanza what point does the speaker make about the victory garland?

A= The athlete having died young, will not live to see his victory garland wither.

When I Was One-and-Twenty by A. E. Housman

6. In the first two lines of “When I Was One and Twenty” the speaker recalls words from?

A= A wise man.

7. What is the central purpose of this poem?

A= To link relationship that nature has with the eventual degradation of humankind.

8. What does the story focus on?

A= Taking life for granted.

9. What line does the speaker suggest that we are concerned with materials?

A= Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

10. What is the possible theme?

A= Human conditions, experiences, love

Miss Younghal’s Sais by Rudyard Kipling

1. What does “Sais” means?

A= Is a servant who attends to horses; a groom, or an attendant who follows on foot behind a
mounted rider or carriage

2. What kind of reading is?

A= A short story

3. Who is Miss Younghal?

A= Is the daughter of a presumably high class family who fell in love for British policeman named
Strickland

4. When was the story published?

A= It was published in the Civil and Military Gazette on April 25th, 1887

5. Where does the story take place?

A= In India

6. What is the story about?

A= Strickland, a policeman officer with deep love with Miss Younghal, but is disapproved of by
her parents. He disguises himself as a native servant, and is taken on as her groom

7. What happened at the end?

A= Miss Younghal’s parents accepted her relationship

8. Why Miss Younghal’s parents refuse to accept Strickland?

A= They consider that Strickland works in the worst paid department in the Empire

9. Why does Strickland become a “Sais”?

A= To see Miss Younghal

10. What did her parents do?

A= They forbid him from speaking with or writing to their daughter

The Romantic Period

1. How people speak during this period?

A= Some words were pronounced quite differently than they are today. For example: The first
syllable of cement was stressed and The middle syllable of balcony was stressed.

2. How people write in this period?

A= The Romantic writers found beauty and truth in the ordinary. They abandoned the formal
diction of the eighteenth century in favor of everyday language.

A Poison Tree by William Blake

3. Why did the author’s anger grow?

A= He didn’t tell his enemy why he was angry.

4. Which line indicates that the speaker’s wrath increased over time?

A= “And it grew both day and night”

5. What was the poet trying to deliver?

A= Do not suppress negative feelings

The Lamb by William Blake

6. What does the lamb represent most?

A= Innocence
7. Which religion does this poem focus on?

A= Christianity

8. What does stanza 2 focus on?

A= A religious-philosophical discussion

The Tyger by William Blake

9. How is the experience represented in this poem?

A= Experience is represented throughout the poem by references to Lucifer and God

10. Why does Blake directly address the tiger?

A= The tiger is directly addressed because it symbolizes a certain darkness in the world

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

1. What year was the work published?

A=1972

2. Wollstonecraft had already published which work before Vindication of the Rights of
Woman?

A= A vindication of the rights of man

3. What is the "grand source of misery" that she deplores?

A= Neglected education

4. What does Wollstonecraft assert about physical superiority?

A= Men are physically superior

5. What social class of women is she primarily addressing?

A= Middle class

6. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A= Women will still be dependent upon men in some areas of life

7. Men try to secure the good conduct of women by doing what?

A= Keeping them in a state of childhood

8. What does "silently more misfortune than all the rest" for women?

A= Their disregard of order

9. Who does Wollstonecraft compare women to in regard to weakness?

A= Military men

10. Elegance is said to be inferior to what?

A= Virtue